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Water-Cooled Chillers

A diverse portfolio of water-cooled chillers, featuring centrifugal and helical rotary screw technologies, ranging from 80 to over 4,000 tons.

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Benefits

Performance You Can Trust When Every Degree Matters 

At Trane, we understand that your success depends on efficient, reliable, and sustainable thermal management solutions. Our water-cooled chillers are designed to help reduce operating expenses, lower environmental impact, and provide precise temperature control for mission-critical processes. With buildings responsible for nearly 40% of total energy use in the United States*, our advanced chiller portfolio offers a forward-looking opportunity to enhance energy efficiency and lower overall costs, delivering performance you can trust when every degree matters.

*Why Build Green? | Green Building |US EPA

  • Experience Industry-Renowned Performance

    Our commitment to excellence runs deep—dating back to 1938. Our water-cooled portfolio features innovative solutions that consistently meet the highest standards, delivering industry-renowned reliability and efficiency. 

  • Harness Advanced Controls 

    Improve your operations with the Symbio® 800 controller, designed for seamless, secure connectivity and integration with building automation systems. This capability allows real-time monitoring and proactive maintenance, improving operations while helping to reduce costs. 

  • Safeguard Mission-Critical Operations 

    With features like Rapid Restart™, your chiller can quickly recover and resume functionality after an unexpected power interruption, helping to reduce downtime and safeguarding your essential processes when it matters most.  

  • Reduce Your Environmental Footprint 

    Our commitment to sustainability is reflected in our offering of low-GWP and ultra-low GWP refrigerant options, helping to reduce environmental impact. Several of our chiller models come with third-party verified environmental product declarations, providing transparency in our manufacturing practices. 

  • Improve Your System Performance 

    Our water-cooled chiller portfolio offers a range of design options to enhance your thermal management systems, including harmonic filters, heat recovery, and thermal energy storage. These features provide greater flexibility, allowing you to tailor systems to your specific operational needs and sustainability goals. 

Precision Thermal Management, Tailored to Your Needs 

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    Series R™ Helical Rotary Screw Chillers

    Trane Series R™ helical rotary chiller models RTWD and RTHD offer robust and reliable performance with updated refrigerants and upgraded controls.

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    CenTraVac® Water-Cooled Centrifugal Chiller

    Trane CenTraVac® water-cooled centrifugal chillers feature a time-tested low-pressure design utilizing environmentally friendly refrigerants R-514A and R-1233zd.

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    Agility® Magnetic Bearing Centrifugal Chiller

    Trane® Agility® chillers offer a compact, efficient, and sustainable thermal management solution. Ideal for new construction and existing buildings, they help lower installation costs while modernizing system performance and versatility.

SolutionApplicationsRefrigerantCompressor TechnologyCooling CapacityHeating Capacity
Series R™Commercial, Education, Manufacturing

R-513A

R-515B

Helical Rotary Screw80-400 Tons600-5,000 MBH
Agility®Commercial, Education, HealthcareR-513A  Magnetic Bearing Centrifugal175-500 Tons2,100-4,900 MBH
CenTraVac®Commercial, Education, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Data Centers, High Tech

R-514A

R-1233zd

Centrifugal200-4,000+ Tons5,100 - 60,000 MBH

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We See More Than Just a Structure, Rather a Blueprint for Innovation 

Trane supports the successful transition to electrified heating by applying our expertise in HVAC system design. Our water-cooled portfolio includes chillers with heat recovery capabilities, effectively making them heat pump chillers. Heat recovery is an efficient method for heating while cooling, as the chiller heat pump recycles waste heat generated during the cooling process. 

Thermal Battery Storage Source Heat Pump System With Hydronic Branch Conductor Controls

High-Performance System Design Options 

At Trane, we understand the comprehensive, system-wide aspects essential for the effective thermal management of your building, starting with your chiller. Trust our expert guidance to tackle even the most complex challenges. Enhance your results with integrated cutting-edge technology, precise controls, pre-engineered tools, and optional services.

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    Comprehensive Chilled Water Systems

    Comprehensive chilled-water systems employ best practices in chiller plant design that align with current industry guidance for achieving high performance cooling, heating, and ventilation, all while reducing first cost.

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    Comprehensive Chiller-Heater Systems

    Achieve cost-effective, energy-efficient, reliable, sustainable cooling and hydronic heating, while reducing carbon emissions.

  • Air to Water Heat Pump Cascade System

    Air-to-Water Cascade Heat Pump System

    A heat pump cascade system cost-effectively extends high efficiency heat pumps into higher temperature ranges. Explore the Trane cascade HVAC system.


Still Not Sure Which Solution is Right for Your Project?  We Can Help. 

Featured Case Studies

  • The Science Museum of Minnesota enhanced building comfort with Trane heat recovery solutions

    Customer Story

    Heat Recovery at Science Museum of Minnesota: Reducing Costs and Carbon Footprint

    Explore how the Science Museum of Minnesota embraced a holistic approach to building comfort with Trane's heat recovery solutions. Discover how the museum's heat recovery retrofit captured waste heat, significantly lowering heating bills by 75% and saving nearly $300,000 annually.

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    Customer Story

    Ford Motor Company

    Implementing an energy efficient, sustainable and reliable chiller plant at Ford’s Dearborn campus reduced their energy use by 540,288 kWh per year.

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    Zero Net Energy and LEED Gold: California State Lottery Headquarters' Innovative Energy Solutions

    The California State Lottery Headquarters partnered with Trane to create a sustainable and energy-efficient facility, including a Zero Net Energy pavilion, using solar panels and ice-based energy storage, while achieving LEED Gold certification and reducing cooling costs during peak hours by 21 percent.

  • 55 Water Street, NYC, building interior.

    Customer Story

    Heat Recovery System Makes Impact

    55 Water Street electrification retrofit with heat recovery system helped achieve NYC Local Law 97 compliance, energy savings, and more.

  • Kings County Courthouse

    Energy-Efficient Renovation: Kings County Courthouse Achieves LEED Silver Certification

    Learn how the Kings County Courthouse, a compound of old, outdated buildings, underwent a transformative renovation to create a safer and more energy-efficient environment while adhering to state mandates for LEED® certification.

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    Customer Story

    University of Ottawa

    Two-thirds of the 600,000 square foot research-intensive Roger Guindon Hall is consumed with wet labs. The building houses the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Health on an 80-acre Health Sciences Centre that also includes the Ottawa General Hospital, the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and the Royal Ottawa Regional Rehabilitation Center.

Discover More of What’s Possible with Trane 

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    Design and Analysis Tools

    Backed by our extensive history of HVAC system design and software simulation knowledge, our cutting-edge tools answer your challenges and help empower you to create a more sustainable, efficient and healthy world.

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    Building Control Solutions

    Modern HVAC technology for buildings new and old

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    Energy Services

    You have goals. We have the experience and insights to help you reach them. On the forefront of what’s next, the flexible Wayform approach allows our experts to easily evolve their solutions as both your needs and the times change.

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    Building Systems Maintenance and Repair

    Better building operations depend on custom maintenance and repairs. With help from service experts, you can have exactly what you need to manage buildings on your schedule and budget.

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    Decarbonization Solutions

    Decarbonization is the processes of preventing or reducing carbon gasses from being released into the atmosphere, often as the result of burning fossil fuels that emit greenhouse gases. Much like vehicles that are reducing emissions by becoming more fuel efficient, or powered by electric batteries, buildings are decarbonizing, too.

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    Electrification of Heat Solutions

    When electrification of heat becomes part of your building’s decarbonization journey, you can choose from a spectrum of hybrid or electrified heating that helps to enable a more sustainable future. Contact your Trane office. We can support you every step of the way.